Hench, Philip Showalter

Claire EJ Herrick, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002536

1896–1965 American physician, who demonstrated the value of cortisone in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Keywords: cortisone; rheumatoid arthritis; adrenal cortex; Kendall

 Further Reading
    book Hench PS (1940) Chronic Arthritis: Chronic Infectious Arthritis, Chronic Senescent Arthritis, Gout. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.
    book Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (eds) (1990) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology, pp. 231–237. New York: Garland.
    Glyn J (1998) The discovery and early use of cortisone. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 91: 513–517.
    Obituary (1965) British Medical Journal i: 1003.
    Obituary (1965) Lancet i: 825.
    book Stevenson LG (1953) Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology, 1901–50, pp. 272–283. New York: Henry Shuman.

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Herrick, Claire EJ(Apr 2001) Hench, Philip Showalter. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002536]